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...One thing to start: The private equity industry is facing a “shakeout” that could result in painful losses for investors who piled into the sector without properly understanding the risks of holding illiquid...
...Trafigura said the ex-employee was a former consultant to DT Group, which was a joint venture formed in 2009 by Trafigura and Cochan Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle controlled by a former military adviser...
...It was set up in 2011 by David Messer and other former leaders of Sempra Commodities, once a top commodities trading house....
...to acquire Getty Images Holding, Inc....
...It also outspends LG on research and development and, according to Dealogic data, CATL has spent more than $4.5bn on acquisitions over the past five years, deepening its holdings across the battery supply...
...the UK accounting profession’s fundamental principles of objectivity and integrity when they advised on the sale of Silentnight to US private equity firm HIG Capital through a prepack administration in 2011...
...Under dos Santos, partnerships with Dino’s Cochan Holdings LLC helped Trafigura dominate the supply of petroleum products in Angola, generating bumper profits that supported the Swiss group’s transformation...
...One late summer afternoon in 2011, railroad turnround legend Hunter Harrison and Bill Ackman lunched at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art....
...By 2008, Madoff had taken in $17bn and sent investors false statements claiming that their holdings amounted to $65bn....
...By 2011 and with the economy in recovery, there were no longer any bargains in mortgage-backed securities....
...Trivikraman Thampy says Tiger Global invested $5m in his Indian gaming company Games 24x7 in 2011 after a single phone call....
...It’s a sharp deviation from last year, when the Ferragamo family, which owns a 54 per cent stake in Ferragamo Finanziaria, the holding company that controls the brand, explored selling a minority stake to...
...A listing of Fenway Sports Group LLC, the holding company for the reigning English Premier League football champions and the 2018 World Series baseball champions, would be one of the most high-profile sports...
...In 2011 the group took Nielsen public with a total debt of more than $8bn. The consortium looking to buy Nielsen is not the only potential combined private equity deal under way....
...Baupost has started approaching its existing investors about raising more money for the first time since 2011, said people familiar with the matter....
...In 2012, three economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published the results of their research into short selling bans imposed in 2008 and 2011....
...Lex questions whether the Alphabet holding company is still necessary, as it had been largely designed to allow the founders to step back from day-to-day management....
...Google Maps and Google Earth launch 2006 Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn in shares 2007 Google buys online advertising platform DoubleClick for $3.1bn 2011 Eric Schmidt steps down as Google chief,...
...In 2011, Twitter tried to lure him away to become its head of product. It took a personal intervention by Mr Brin, who paid a visit to Mr Pichai’s home one weekend, to persuade him to stay....
...Henderson Global Investors offered only a negligible mark-up when it bought struggling London rival Gartmore in 2011....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...“As I remember it, he called me and said, ‘My name is Harvey Weinstein and I make movies,’ Mr Cohen told Bloomberg TV in 2011....
...SoFi, the highly valued online lender, explored a sale earlier this year, holding talks with companies including Schwab, the San Francisco-based broker, according to people familiar with the matter....
...“Whatever you owned in Industrial Heat LLC when it was the parent, you owned the same amount pro rata in IH Holdings International Limited when that was formed,” said the executive, John Vaughn....
...Google broke into smartphone manufacturing in 2011 with its $12.5bn purchase of Motorola Mobility....
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